WashingtonThe US and UK signed a memorandum on Southeast Asian scam compounds.
The deal targets prosecutions, not the debt-bonded workers trafficked into running scams.
The compounds sit in Myanmar and Cambodia border zones outside state control.
The memorandum coordinates cases, not extradition, reaching neither the compounds nor their operators.
How each outlet framed it
- The Record
- details US-UK agreement targeting Chinese-run scam compounds in Southeast Asia; planned October disruption event, cyber fraud at 85% of losses
Sources: The Record